Barney the Dinosaur

Barney the Dinosaur is a two-hundred-million-year-old (two dinosaur years), 6-to-7 foot tall, purple Tyrannosaurus Rex with a green tummy in stuffed animal likeness, who comes to life through a child's imagination. He's always positive, but tends to a bit sensitive, though he's never really shown it. His theme song is "Barney Is a Dinosaur," which is sung to the tune of "Yankee Doodle". Barney often quotes things as being "Super dee-duper". Episodes and videos (after the Backyard Gang series) frequently end with the song "I Love You", sung to the tune of "This Old Man", which happens to be one of Barney's favorite songs. Despite being a T-Rex dinosaur, Barney likes many different foods such as fruits and vegetables, but his main favorite is a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He also loves marching bands and parades. His three young dino friends are BJ, Baby Bop, and Riff.

Physical appearance[]

Barney originally appeared as a skinny dark blue dinosaur in the first three home videos of Barney and the Backyard Gang. Starting from Waiting for Santa, Barney turned from dark blue to a purple colour.

Starting from Barney In Concert, Barney now became a bright magenta purple colour and became a little chubby.

Trivia[]

Barney is also an imaginary friend for Chuckie Finster. Whenever Chuckie has a problem with something, Barney would sometimes appear and cheer him up.
- Chuckie and his fellow Rugrats won't appear in Barney's adventures until Follow That Dinosaur. When they do, they only appear in their All Grown Up formations.
Barney makes his first debut in Pooh's Adventures of Prehysteria, and meet Twilight, ????, and ???? for the first time.
Barney along with Baby Bop & BJ will see Team Robot in Team Robot's Adventures of Barney's Imagination Island & Emerl's Adventures Of Barney in Outer Space
Barney will join the Peanuts Gang in the first Peanuts crossover, Charlie Brown and Snoopy Join Lilo and Stitch.
Barney is also known for saying his signature send-off "And remember, I love you", a line used in most endings of the Barney Says segments which he hosted.
Barney, BJ, Baby Bop, and Riff will reveal how they met Pooh and the gang in Barney's Adventures of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
Barney will join Pooh and gang with BJ and Baby Bop and Riff in end of Pooh's Adventures of The Toy Warrior.
Barney will start his own adventures series in 2025. It's currently unknown which film he'll start with but the films that WILL be released that year will include the following, listed alphabetically by series:
- the Cinderella trilogy (in honor of the original's 75th anniversary)
- He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword (in honor of its 40th anniversary)
- various Peanuts specials and at least one movie (because they're also turning 75 that year)
- The Princess and the Frog (in honor of Tiana's Bayou Adventure, and hopefully her upcoming Disney+ series)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (in honor of the live-action movie)
- Tangled (in honor of its 10th anniversary)
- all 4 current Toy Story films and both Buzz Lightyear spin-off films (in honor of both the original's 30th anniversary and the 5th one in 2026)
Barney will meet Sailor Moon and her friends in Sailor Moon's Adventures of Barney and the Backyard Gang.
Barney is really good friends with Miss Frizzle, Ronald McDonald, and The Cat in the Hat, since they each take kids on magic trips to certain places. Sometimes, they come with him, depending on the adventure.
In Barney Goes to Cool World, he is mistaken by the citizens as a 3D doodle.
Mattel Films is helping a yet-to-be-announced movie studio is releasing a new movie about this guy starring Daniel Kaluuya (from Black Panther and Get Out). The plot is currently unknown, but hopefully it won't be like the 2019 direct-to-video Banana Splits horror movie where the titular characters rip-offed Five Nights at Freddy's.
- Zach Stentz, writer of Rim of the World, suggests it'll be a mix between Christopher Robin and Drop Dead Fred.
- Others suggest it'll be the horror movie they always asked for, or something similar to Joker.
- Kaluuya is producing the film and not playing the titular character.
He's also the creator of the board game Jumanji, and wasn't happy when it turned itself into a video game but did love the avatars it came up with..